Mexican Population

As I know,after the wars against the Cortes,Tenochtitlan  was greatly ruined and Aztec population was killed in big numbers.Already,Aztecs weren't so crowded before the spanish invasion.

But now there are about 100 million people in Mexico and capital of them,Mexico City,has 30 million population too.

I wonder,who lives in Mexico so much now?What is the genetical background of current Mexican population?Are they purely Aztecs-Mayans or were they mixed with the Spanish ?

Edited by Jagatai Khan

I'm not sure about this, so someone may correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC the Mexican census mainly bases their figures on language. Therefore in the official numbers only 10% of the Mexican population is Amerindian, because only 10% use Amerindian languages. 20% of the Mexican population is genetically Amerindian, but are counted as mestizo because they speak Spanish.

Hello Jagatai:

the last census of population in 2000 reflected 97 million population.
Back in 1986 we were 68 millions.

Mexico City and not New Mexico is the capital city of Mexico.

Mexico City is the second largest populated town in the world. Due the extension reached by Mexico City it is connected with the the State of Mexico.

Answering your question about the racial mixture down here in Mexico. Around 90% of the population is Mestizo ( mainly mix of native mexicans and spaniard ) around 90% of the population. The original mexican groups in global are 10 million population and a very few percentage of european and asiatic population.

African mexicans are mixed on the Mestizo group, mainly located in the mexican states of Guerrero in the Pacific , Veracruz and Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico coast.

Yes. They live mostly in the south the countryn near the coast. Though their numbers were never that great, as there were plenty of locals to put to work in the Silver mines/plantations (whichever applies, i can't renember).
Others have migrated to the big cities, and mixed in with the general mestizo population.
Apparently some Americans are upset that Mexicans don't count the number of Black people, perhaps Mexico should inturn complain that the US doesn't make a serious attempt to count the number of mixed people.


Edited by Cywr

At least linguistically Aztecs and Mayans are not related (unless you count the Amerindian language family, which isn't universally accepted among linguists). Mayans have their own language group, while Nahuatl (the Aztec language) is part of the Uto-Aztecan language group, which also contains Ute, Shoshone and Commanche. Most other Uto-Aztecan languages are spoken in NW Mexico and SW USA, so probably the origins of the Aztecs are there.

 

In his book Michael E. Smith states that in modern Mexico the term "indian" is rather a sign of lower social status than ancestry. I found this really interesting. Is this true?

Edited by Raider

Yes, it is true. But I would say that it is more dependent on cultural background than social class.

Because most Mexicans are so genetically mixed, it is very hard to tell Mexicans from "Indios." People are able to spot the differences by cloths, but if you dress a Mexican and a Indian with the same cloths, either traditional native garmets or westerned cloths, it is difficult to tell the difference. For example, I once talked in Spanish with a group of U.S. Native Americans because I believed they were Mexican.

For this reason, culture is the key marker. Differences in language, language accents, and cultural practices are what distinguish Mexicans from Native Americans. Mestizos returned the same feelings, and to this day "Indian" and "Gachupin"--Spaniard--are insults.

Mestizos were actually in a lower social class at first, being rejected by the Spaniards and the native people--children from rapes are not liked too much by either parent. Their social position raised by their numbers and after the war of Independence. They social positions was strengthened after the Mexican Revolution.

Americans tend to see a white elite running Mexico politcally and culturally, mapping their worldview to Mexico. I don't know how true this is. Many modern Mexican intellectuals are children of Spaniards who immigrated in the 1930s. Middle Easterners seem to control the business world, and they also immigrated in the early 20th century. I ignore how many descendents from 17th century criollos are in positions of power.

 

I have just read in a Hungarian history site that a petrified human footprint was found at Cerro Toluquilla, Mexico. The estimated age of these footprints are 40 thousand year. If this is true theory of the migration across the Asia-Alaska panhandle is false and the native american population is much more oldar than we thought.

So,ancient Turkish language is very similar to native American language in modern south and west USA.

Eskimos' genes almost same  with Koreans by the way.